Review Questions---Section 4
1) Consider the surface weather map in Figure 14.3 of your book. Which of these (a, b or c) describes the likely weather for the next few days
(1) at Memphis?
(2) at Dallas?
(3) at Denver?
(a) thunderstorms, then cold and dry
(b) Steadily colder and
clear
(c) Low cloud, rain, warming, then storms and cooling
2) At which point (Memphis, Dallas or Denver) will the surface winds probably shift from southeasterly to southwesterly?
3) Snow is most likely at (a) Memphis (b) Dallas (c) Denver (d) Chicago
4) When there is a high directly west of us in the summer the weather in the Puget Sound area is likely to be (a) very hot, rainy (b) very hot, clear (c) mild, rainy (d) mild, clear Explain.
5) What airflow pattern and what vertical temperature profile give snow in Seattle?
6)Examine Figure 4.14 from your book. What is the temperature structure in the atmosphere that produces this mirage? Explain how it is produced.
7) Which atmospheric conditions favor the development of tornadoes? (a) Lower atmosphere unstable, stable layer aloft (b) Horizontal wind increasing with height (c) Lower atmosphere slightly stable, conditionally unstable layer aloft (d) Horizontal wind constant in height
8) On a late summer afternoon the surface winds are westerly on the East side of Puget Sound and easterly on the West side of the Sound. Is this due to (a) a Puget Sound Convergence Zone event? (b) The rainshadow effect of the Olympic Mountains? (c) A sea breeze effect?
9) What force(s) are most responsible for this air flow? (a) gravity (b) Coriolis (c) friction (d) pressure gradient force
10) A storm system is characterized by isobars that form concentric circles around a low. This storm is likely to be (a) a midlatitude cyclone (b) a Puget Sound Convergence Zone event (c) a hurricane
11) (a) Sketch the overall air motions in cross-section from the eye to the outside of a hurricane, from the tropopause to the sea surface. (b) Sketch the overall water motions in cross-section from the eye to the outside of a hurricane, from the sea surface to the ocean floor. Assume the storm is near land.